With the surplus amount of great movies and shows on Showmax, it can be hard to settle on one. There’s plenty to choose from, whether you’re looking for the best action movies, the best horror films, the best comedies or the best classic movies on Showmax.
Rather than spending your time scrolling through categories, trying to track down the perfect film to watch, Here is a list of some of the best shows and series streaming on Showmax this September:
Diiche – Premieres 29 September | New episodes weekly
An A-list actress becomes a prime suspect in a high-profile murder investigation over the death of Nnamdi, her fiancé. She must take it upon herself and race against the clock to find out who killed her fiancé and exonerate herself.
However, there is more to the case than meets the eye and a backstory of almost 30 years ago, known only to her mother, that reveals the tussle between good and evil. The 6-part psychological thriller, directed by James Omokwe, Tolu Ajayi, Fiyin Gambo and Ifeoma Chukwuogo, parades a vibrant mix of emerging and established Nollywood acts including Daniel K Daniel, Efa Iwara, Uzoamaka Onuoha, Frank Konwea, Uzoamaka Aniunoh, Kalu Ikeagwu, Chinyere Wilfred and Gloria Anozie-Young.
Blood Psalms – Weekly from 28 September, with new episodes every Wednesday
In Ancient Africa, one thousand days after the fall of Atlantis, the five surviving houses of Kemet find themselves beset with fears of a prophesied end of days.
Bokang Phelane (Keeping Score, Isidingo) has the role of a lifetime as Princess Zazi, a fiercely determined teenage princess who must navigate primordial curses, long-standing ancestral vendettas, and her inexplicable role as the damning prophecy’s chief harbinger.
Mothusi Magano, winner of four SAFTAs and an African Movie Academy Award (AMAA), plays her father, mad king Letsha, while SAFTA winner and 2022 DSTV Mzansi Viewers’ Choice nominee Zolisa Xaluva (Gomora, Knuckle City) plays her lover, General Toka, the head of her father’s Akachi army.
House of The Dragon – Weekly, new episodes every Monday
Hello, dear Game of Thrones fans, Dinner is served! The prequel to Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon, is based on author George RR Martin’s book Fire & Blood and chronicles the history of House Targaryen. The show broke HBO’s viewing records, with almost 10 million fans watching the first episode.
The Offer – Currently available to binge
The biographical drama series The Offer is inspired by Oscar-winning producer Albert S Ruddy’s experiences of making the 1972 smash-hit gangster classic The Godfather.
The limited series about the making of the greatest movie of all time is one part hagiography, one part clunky antihero drama, and a total waste of time.
The Staircase – Binge from 15 September
Inspired by a true story, the eight-part series explores the life of Michael Peterson, a crime novelist accused of killing his wife, Kathleen, after she’s found dead at the bottom of the staircase in their home, and the 16-year judicial battle that followed.
Oscar winner Colin Firth and Oscar nominee Toni Collette were nominated for Outstanding Actress and Actor in a Limited Series at this year’s Emmys for the biographical drama series The Staircase.
Industry S2 | First on Showmax | Binge from 23 September
Created by former bankers Mickey Down and Konrad Kay, Industry follows new bankers Harper (Myha’la Herrold), Yasmin (Marisa Abela) and Robert (Harry Lawtey) as they forge their identities within the sex- and drug-fuelled pressure cooker environment of Pierpoint & Co’s London office.
In Season 2, they can no longer hide behind their graduate status. The market is ripping, and Pierpoint’s back-to-work-or-else mandate has the post-COVID trading floor more charged up and paranoid than ever. New US management will be gasoline on the flames – an injection of cross-Atlantic energy that lights a fire under each and every employee.
Night Raiders | Stream from 22 September
Set in a dystopian North America in the year 2044, Night Raiders centres on a Cree woman named Niska (multiple award-winning Blackfoot and Sámi filmmaker and actress from the Kainai First Nation, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers), who joins an underground band of vigilantes in a bid to save her daughter from the military government.
Night Raiders has an 84% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes, where the critics’ consensus says, “Night Raiders strikes grim parallels between its dystopian setting and the present, offering a disturbing reminder that the horrors of the past are often very much still with us.”
After We Fell | Stream from 22 September
With the fourth instalment of the After film series just released on circuit, you can fall all over again for Teen Choice winners Josephine Langford and Hero Fiennes-Tiffin as Tessa and Hardin in the third movie: After We Fell.
Based on the 2014 novel of the same name by Anna Todd, the romantic drama picks up with Tessa making the biggest decision of her life, only to find everything changing. Revelations about her family, and then Hardin’s, throw everything they knew before in doubt and makes their hard-won future together more difficult to claim.
You can also watch the first two films, After and After We Collided, on Showmax.
Enjoy these and other super exciting movies like Citizen Code, Future Human AI, Great Dreamers, Inventions That Built Our World, Shrek The Third, Shrek Forever After, The Endgame, Three Days To Kill A Family Man, Trust Home Again, Watchmen, American Dream and so much more from as low as #1,200 on Showmax. Visit www.showmax.com to get started. If you are an MTN subscriber, you can sign up for Showmax using your airtime by dialling *447*2*2# and following the prompts.
